WLWT spoke with another young man in this neighborhood who said the teen accused is like a brother to him and he has no explanation.

Kameron Thornton grew up with the 16-year-old who lived in the house. He turned in disbelief today when he heard his friend was accused of setting the house on fire in an attempt to kill his parents.

"I never saw it coming. I never would have guessed that one of my friends would be the type that would just go off the deep end like that out of nowhere," Thornton said. "There isn't a teenager who doesn't have struggles with his parents. We are rebels, that's how we are. But for the fact of this to happen, I just never saw it coming."

Jones said that the teen had a written plan for his actions and use an accelerant to help spread the flames.

"You see it in other places, other states, but to actually see it here and to have the door tied shut, that's about as serious as it gets," Jones said.

The teen has no prior criminal record, Jones said. He said the teen had recently been disciplined by his parents for unspecified reasons.

"There was drawings of how this was to be done and words also," Jones said. "It was very explicit what he was going to do and he kept to his drawing as it appears."

Classmates at Lakota West said the teen is a smart kid, kind of shy but very nice.

"But he also was really depressed. I remember him talking about that earlier in the week," one classmate who we are not identifying said.

Classmates said lately the teen's Facebook postings have been dark, too.

"He was asked why his Facebook statuses have been so depressing and the only key thing I heard him say was because his life was depressing," the classmate said.

A dark cloud of questions hangs over what looks like any other house in any other neighborhood. Thornton said the boy was just like any other teen.

"We haven't really talked about any personal stuff in the past couple months but I guess now I'm realizing he must've been hiding something," Thornton said.

As for whether investigators think he had intentions of carrying out more violence, they are not sure.

"We don't know if he had anything planned for anything else," Jones said.

Hones said the fire started and neighbors saw the teen take off in his father's car. He eventually returned.

Jones said the teen has since admitted to what he has done.

"He doesn't seem to have any remorse," he said.

The sheriff said he would recommend that the teen be tried as an adult.

If the teen is tried as an adult and convicted, he faces 22-years in jail. His next court date is Nov. 5.